Rasma Haidri’s poems and essays have appeared in journals including The Sun,Rattle, River Teeth, Action Spectacle, Under the Radar, Prairie Schooner, Sycamore Review, Fourth Genre, and been anthologized in the US, UK, Norway, India, Hong Kong, and UAE. She is the author of two poetry collections: Blue Like Apples, and As If Anything Can Happen, and three English textbooks. Recognitions for her writing include the Southern Women Writers creative non-fiction award; the Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Letters & Science poetry award; Western Michigan University’s Third Coast Conference fiction prize; Riddled with Arrow’s Ars Poetica prize, EasyStreet magazine’s Great American Sentence award; and several Pushcart and Best of Net nominations. She holds an M.Sc. in reading education from the University of Wisconsin and an MFA in poetry and creative non-fiction from the University of British Columbia. Rasma is a South Asian-Norwegian-American, raised in Tennessee and educated in Wisconsin and France. She emigrated from Hawaii to the Norwegian Arctic in 2001 and now lives with her wife on a coastal island in the North Sea.